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speed as to fill up each of
three bottles of a well
known fizzy glucose drink
within a time limit, and so
be in the ideal state of
body for the two days'
events. It you suceed you
now hove some reserves of
energy to draw on when
the going gets rough.
This over with, it is straight
into the events, and there is
more than enough frantic
jiggling of the joystick here
to keep even the most
hardened basher with a
smile on his face.
First up on the load (Day
A Discus on the 64_ note runners on the bockground
a A successful you!?, but the pole's a bit bendy
1) is the hundred metres.
ten seconds or so of frantic
Joystick action which only
pales into significance
next to the 400 metres and
the (oh my God)1500
metres in the second load.
Not a lot more to be said
about the running events
really. The motion is quite
nice, the backgrounds are
nice and detailed and (on
the 64) moving, and your
lower arms take a lot of
punishment_ One thing
especially vital here is to
make sure you chose the
correct pair of Adidas
training shoes from your
menu for each event, or
you'll really be making
unnecessary work for
yourself. There's no easy
way to do this I'm afraid: on
the versions I played.
finding out which shoes to
use is a case of trial and
error. The packaging may
make this clear_
Adidas also get
mentioned on the posters
that surround the stadium,
though there are fewer of
those than there ore on,
say. Peter Beardsley's
Football. See what you can
A ST screen: looking good
get if you cough up the
dosh, Lucozade?
Next up is the Long Jump
- pretty tricky in that you
have to jiggle the stick to
build up your power,
release the fire button to
get the jump, and then
control the angle of the
iump with your joystick to
get a good length to it.
The three throwing
events - Shot Putt, Discus
and Javelin - are quite
close to each other, each
one relying on the build up
of power - very difficult, on
my first attempt at
waggling my stick that fast I
got roughly nowhere -
before the vital angle
selection and the release.
The hurdles make on
interesting variant to the
running events, and then it
is on to the high jump and
pole vault. Possibly the
trickiest of the lot, the skill is
in timing the jump to the
last possible moment,
especially hard in the vault
since you must guess the
length of the stick in front of
you.
If you've done well you
get to go on the winner's
podium, something you
well deserve: after all that
wrist action building up
power you'd be as tired as
Daley himself_
All in all, a very good
looking game that
recreates both the man
and his sport well. My only
real reservation would be
that the manic joystick use
could become somewhat
painful after a while.
Definitely one to pick up
if you're into compilation
sports simulations though I
don't think it's special
enough to earn the Golden
Joystick its illustrious
predecessor did. We've
just seen too much of this
sort of thing since then.
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We've seen loading
screens and the start of
work on the Amstrad
version, and It should play
very similarly to the